The twisted irony of the NYPD wrongly assaulting and detaining black tennis star James Blake |
The twisted irony of the NYPD wrongly assaulting and detaining black tennis star James Blake
The Daily Kos
2015-09-10
Yeah. This really happened.
Retired black tennis star James Blake, in an NYPD double-fault, was slammed to a Manhattan sidewalk and handcuffed by a white cop in a brutal case of mistaken identity.
The 35-year-old Blake, once ranked No. 4 in the world, suffered a cut to his left elbow and bruises to his left leg as five plainclothes cops eventually held him for 15 minutes Wednesday outside the Grand Hyatt Hotel.
“It was definitely scary and definitely crazy,” Blake told the Daily News. “In my mind there’s probably a race factor involved, but no matter what there’s no reason for anybody to do that to anybody.”
Of course, Blake is right. This absolutely should not have happened, but that much is a obvious to all of us. There are questions we should be asking, though…
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Tags: James Blake, New York, New York City, Shawn King, sports, tennis, William Bratton, William J. Bratton